Confronting youth unemployment: policy options for South Africa

This report provides a summation of factors contributing to youth unemployment and calls for the development of a multi-pronged strategy to address these issues. It provides for a process to develop such strategies. In addition it canvasses the motivations for a youth-unemployment subsidy and lays out the design, implementation process and cost of the potential subsidy. Finally, it proposes a way forward and calls for submissions in this regard.